The Brooklyn company that promotes Tough Mudder obstacle course challenges by encouraging participants to have the brand tattooed on their bodies, among other things, is suing an Upper Macungie Township man who hosts children's versions of the races.
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I don't really pay attention to who is directing awards shows, but the person in charge of the Grammys should be fired.
The show got off to a rousing start with AC/DC, but with a few really good exceptions, it was...

Would your morning commute be a little better if you were drinking coffee from an official New Jersey Turnpike travel mug? Would paying tolls be a little less of a task if you could reach in to a genuine Garden State Parkway purse for a quarter to throw...

Hugo Selenski's cousin took the stand Friday morning and told jurors Selenski told him a pharmacist he knew was dead — six months before the bodies of Michael Kerkowski and Tammy Fassett were discovered.
Brian Higdon testified during the eighth day of...

An iconic symbol of the Christmas season, the Moravian star takes on special significance in the Lehigh Valley, particularly in the Moravian-founded communities of Bethlehem and Nazareth.
The ornaments, which traditionally have 25 or 26 points, can be...

I'd never heard of a "patent troll" until an Allentown architecture firm contacted me last year about a letter it had received.
The letter alleged the firm "likely" was infringing on patents by using computer scanning equipment and...

Republicans, who now run Congress, say they want to cooperate with President Barack Obama and point to the administration's Trans-Pacific Partnership as the model. The only problem is that the TPP would be a disaster.If you haven't heard much about the...

Aaron Rodgers didn't practice Wednesday because of a lingering left calf injury. The quarterback left no doubt about his plans for Sunday when the Green Bay Packers host the Dallas Cowboys. "No, I'm going Sunday," Rodgers said. "Just a...

The 'Penn State White Out' returns to Beaver Stadium on Saturday, a "throwback" uniform might be coming in the future and an old friend of James Franklin visited Penn State this week. That's all part of the Penn State pre-game read.
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In October of 1962, America worried whether an untried young president, John F. Kennedy, could keep us safe from nuclear-tipped missiles from nearby communist Cuba.Today's October worries are more insidious: the Ebola virus, the macabre Islamic State, a...

Wescosville landmark receives makeoverWerner & Co. Certified Public Accountants recently moved into the former Lutheran Synod building in Wescosville, after completing a renovation that combines old architecture with modern energy...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The president of the largest Native American tribe in the United States raised eyebrows on the weekend when he sat with the owner of the Washington Redskins and wore a cap bearing the NFL team's logo during a game in Arizona.
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School districts nationwide, including in Pennsylvania, have received what they say are phony invoices for book purchases from a company they haven't ordered from. The Better Business Bureau issued a warning Thursday.
The BBB said it's received many...

On the same day that she issued a historically important dissent in defense of affirmative action, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor showed that she's the court's resident techie. In oral argument in the case of ABC v. Aereo, she invoked Dropbox,...

Scratch a patent-law expert and you'll find a Supreme Court critic. Most patent lawyers I know disdain the Supreme Court, or at least think it should butt out of their disputes and let the Federal Circuit, made up of experienced patent-law judges, do...

At first I thought it was too early to look ahead at the new attractions coming to U.S. theme parks in 2015, but then I realized a number of big rides have already been announced and many more are already in the planning stages.
It already seems like...

NEW YORK, July 9 - Cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and Spider-man have been adored by generations of children, but their costumed counterparts who roam New York City's Times Square are more a public nuisance, New York City lawmakers said on...

There has been a German presence in America since 1608. Germans have worked side by side with British North American colonists and, eventually, U.S. citizens. They have challenged us. They have loved us. They have condemned us. In many respects, they...